How is the boys and girls club doing in terms of mentors mentees and fundraising? Some kids are irredeemable while others aren't and just need to be put in right direction and path. I also think a PAL model might help to foster a less us versus them mentality. Pebble makes cogent points. As someone who grew up in the burbs, it was white kids doing drugs and drinking with impunity much like heroin problem now which now advocates treatment and kindness bC the users and dealers are no longer people of color. http://brothawolf.wordpress.com/2012/ ... /pathologizing-blackness/

Invasion in the South on our borders. Gravey cannot even mask his xenophobia and antipathy for others. Do we have a police athletic league here where the police partner with schools at risk kids to keep them off the streets and to foster camaraderie. I was yelled at by a JC for turning on red when you couldn't. He was irate and clenching his fists I presumed he was on steroids and raging. I also for a sec "if he thinks he can treat me, a professional, this way in front of bystanders how does he treat people in the ghetto less affluent parts of JC". Nonetheless the widow of the perp is ridiculous for not showing contrition and compassion and shrines aren't for criminals/repeat offenders.

The borders http://independentcreativeservices.tu ... story-of-latino-lynchings

And by your logic, your propensity to want to do nothing about it is to maintain and exacerbate the status quo. When a wrong has been perpetuated as was the case here by the US government, there's often a corresponding remedy. Segregation (racial and economic) has actually gotten worse, not better. And in your deliberate nonfeasance, it's a way to "keep that demographic on the Republican/GOP bandwagon." I moved here in part for diversity (racial/ethnicity, LGBT, income) and proximity to NYC as I grew up in a practically entirely white setting until middle/high school and didn't want to replicate my suburban upbringing.

http://www.epi.org/publication/modern-segregation/

+1 Shakatah and JPHurst. I am not well-versed on the issue but from just the cursory reading I've done, mixed-income neighborhoods tend to be more vibrant/interesting and have intangible benefits (e.g., those on the lower income spectrum living in proximity to those more affluent often become more determined to improve their lot in life, have access to better schools/services and are more apt to take care of their surroundings than if they are consigned to bad neighborhoods with deficient services, more affluent well-to-do children get to not live in their cocoons/bubbles and get exposure to those not like themselves and it can alleviate entrenched inequality to some extent). For anyone who doesn't know, the ghetto was created by U.S. public policy (not due to so called innate undesirable traits of blacks/Hispanics) which is why many urban places are in the morass they are. I also categorically refute the notion that if you're a hedge fund guy in Paulus Hook making beaucoup bucks you automatically possess fine moral character and admirable traits, and if you're a single mother social worker/office manager making $45K living in B-L, that you lack character, admirable traits and that one shouldn't want their children to associate with the kids of the woman illustrated. And Heights, it's "camaraderie"

http://www.useful-community-developme ... mixed-income-housing.html

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/28/ta-n ... ow-we-created-the-ghetto/

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/a ... -jewish-exception/273592/

There were so many beautiful storefronts back in the day and note the cobblestones.


http://citynoise.org/article/2547

In addition to theatrical performances, will you be showing art house films like Angelika, Landmark Sunshine, IFC center or Roberts Chatham? Feel like that's an essential aspect thats missing from JC nightlife

Monroe it will probably/hopefully be an Andaz, one of their brands in their portfolio to cater to a different demographic.

Downtown Eddy's. I lived at Newport for years and never knew about Van Vorst, Hamilton Park or Harsimus Cove. Anyway, I went on several dates at Downtown Eddy's in the late 90s/early 2000s and loved the place. Excellent food, very inviting/friendly like in a Cheer's sort of mom&pop way, great value (Chicken Marsala for 11.00 including sides and italian bread), great drinks, ambiance and the crowd very diverse and convivial (interracial couples, white people, black people, Hispanics, LGBT, older people).

http://hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_ ... t+to+reopen%20&id=2366131

What about Wegman's? I sometimes go to the one in the Woodbridge en route or coming back from my parents down by the shore.

http://www.businessinsider.in/17-Reas ... /articleshow/33142005.cms

If you are all as educated as you profess to be, I think you can do a better job at staying on topic, being constructive and insightful on your posts and not being incendiary (Tenet #5 on Message Forum), derailing the conversation on making it a referendum on affirmative action, not making it personally about (I'm white and I was once mugged so know how Zimmerman must have felt that night) and to really open and challenge your minds (e.g., I personally don't see any racism or how this is a race issue, so therefore can't be a factor) Query who made you the sole arbiter to determine?

1. For those who say "well no one is mentioning that Zimmerman is latino or Hispanic, not white" Since when are Hispanics/Latinos impervious to racism. Latin America was colonized under the aegis of white supremacy as well. Go to Panama, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, etc. The white skinned Hispanics are on the higher end of the totem pole and the darker skinned Hispanics at the bottom. Even Peru where Zimmerman's mother is from has an informal policy that only blacks serve as pallbearers at funerals. And in the story about her, she's professed that it's important for families to marry white for betterment and looks down on blacks. So why is it illogical that Zimmerman, his brother George, couldn't conceivably be racist or dislike black people from being imbued with attitudes from their parents? I also think you have a narrow definition of racist behavior. For you from what I've read it seemingly has to mean something insidious like saying the N word and be a card carrying member of the KKK and not more everyday subtle behaviors or attitudes. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10 ... ed-Dream-Defenders-ACTION

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07 ... -lima-peru_n_3623028.html

2. If we're going to impeach Trayvon's past, then we have to the same with Zimmerman. He was known to have a propensity for lashing out and anger management issues before the fateful night with Trayvon. Much of his records were suppressed because his dad was a judge. If Zimmerman felt cajones to assault a law enforcement officer, why wouldn't he easily feel the same compunction toward a kid who he felt had no right to be there and be the provocateur?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03 ... -sentence-Anger-Managemet

http://rollingout.com/culture/george- ... e-has-3-closed-arrests/#_

3. Devils you ask why some middle to upper middle class blacks subscribe to this critical race theory, it's because in life experience we see things that you DO NOT see nor will ever see. And as to the comment about dressing well. Most of our middle class parents dressed us very well (ie preppy) to prevent us from encountering racism but I assure you that does not inoculate you either. Some of things are very very subtle and other very overt. Parallels can be drawn to sexism and homophobia, where men and heterosexuals can be readily oblivious to things that women and LGBT can easily discern from life experience.

4. Remember be constructive in feedback, not mean-spirited as it makes you seem ugly and common.

I grew up in middle to upper middle class burbs and know full well that we were not policed in the same manner as kids in inner cities are. I was one of the good kids so it's irrelevant. Anyway, it's well documented that suburban middle to upper middle class kids (especially white ones) are not scrutinized like kids of color (color being associated with caste but as society progresses, SOME of us are becoming enlightened). And of course there are historical antecedents as to why there is more crime in urban areas (the vestiges of jim crow which went up to the 60s, lack of jobs, disinvestment from the areas where blacks and latinos lived, white flight, young teens who were ill-equipped to have kids and continued in such a cycle, guns, drugs, vice in said communities as an underground economy). I didn't mention the historical reasons because it goes without saying and didn't think I had to do the paint by numbers scenario for you. Go to any derelict white suburb or prairie heartland town in the midwest where jobs are scarce and there's been disinvestment, you'll find white kids on meth or heroin doing delinquent things as well (see Rutland Vermont, NY Times article), you're just focusing on the locale where you did your externship. I seriously hope you're not in the judicial court system (prosecutor or otherwise) as you're a ignominious blight to the legal profession.

http://www.apa.org/news/press/release ... /03/black-boys-older.aspx

I could be wrong but when I was last there, the tv was muted and showing a B&W classic flick, something you'd see on Turner Classic Movies like The Heiress. And their Ipod was playing lounge music. You couldn't hear the tv, just see the visuals. I don't think that they are going for the vibe of airing sports events or the news

He was wearing khakis and tennis shoes. Yeah serious gangbanger clothing. http://gawker.com/this-courtesy-of-ms ... rtins-dead-body-753370712

No they are not the same, those kids were menacing Goetz and Trayvon was minding his own business and didn't know who Zimmerman was. Be sloppy in making parallels. I am not going to take Zimmerman's version as truth just because he says that's what happened (he can say anything with there being no witnesses and his character is questionable given his past). And black and latino kids are disproportionately punished and suspended at a higher rate than for the same infractions committed by white kids (who often get warnings, rehab, lectures, my white friends have told me this and I've seen it, note the affluenza kid who ran over people and the white teen who accidentally killed his stepson and said on a jailhouse call "I'm a 16 year old blond, all I need to do is go before the judge and cry and I'll get off") That is incontrovertible fact, so yes you're going to see more kids of color in the juvenile system, especially for selling drugs. And you don't know me in the least so refrain from telling me how I feel and what I think. I am professional and dress conservatively but that is no defense from people making assumptions. You are myopic and clueless on many facets of life, one of them being race. The incident I was referring to is when I was coming home from my gym (in gym clothes) and an elderly white woman who was visiting someone clutched her pocketbook on the elevator. And I've been followed in one store in my neighborhood (which I won't name) and I've never shoplifted in my life. My other professional black friends have experienced the same and we don't go there.

In my building, the parents are staying and supplementing with Kumon or some other student prep/enhancement.

JaeTea, they have one with smoky pancetta and will soon have one with caviar. There still might be smoked salmon one as well. Best deviled eggs I've ever tasted.

To stem the tide of exodus in the State (yes much of it retirees or those priced out) and address the needs of a burgeoning population in our city (families increasingly going back to the urban areas/cities rather than suburbs), we'll need to ensure better schools and STEM programs.
http://www.njbiz.com/article/20140313 ... ey:-Strengthen-a-Strength

I've lived in Van Vorst area for a decade and yes, the trains are exceedingly congested. There are times I cannot get on at Grove Street. The Port Authority has to deal with the onslaught with all the new people moving here in the foreseeable and distant future. I think they are elongating platforms and adding trains at certain stations. They need to increase frequency of trains (if feasible) and hopefully one day PATH will just be consolidated into the MTA.

thanks will definitely check out.

Nice way to hijack and derail the thread by conflating Trayvon with Bernard Goetz and the Asbury Park incident and implying somehow that Trayvon deserved what he got. And if you've read my previous posts, I said we cannot tolerate or condone violent crime and people should be punished accordingly (non-violent offenses is another matter and no, I don't think people should be written off where we spend more money on keeping people in jail). Implicit bias is quite real (and can have detrimental consequences) as I've experienced the subtext in the course of my life being black.

"in the Zimmerman trial, prosecutors abrogated their responsibility to argue the issue to the jury. They didn't even object to offensive racial stereotypes raised by the defense in that trial. Zimmerman's defense team called a young white woman to testify about two African-American burglars who'd robbed her six months before Trayvon Martin was shot. The prosecution should have leapt to their feet, objecting to the outrageous association of burglars with Trayvon Martin, who had no connection to them whatsoever. The defense called Trayvon Martin a "match" to the burglars, with skin color the basis for the match. Demonizing Trayvon Martin based on thieves with whom he shared nothing but blackness is the very definition of racism, but no one said so in the courtroom, not even the prosecutors whose job it was to advocate for the shooting victim.

In addition, Zimmerman had called the police about other suspicious people in his neighborhood multiple times in the six months prior to the Trayvon Martin shooting. All those recorded calls admitted into evidence -- 100 percent -- were about African Americans. Corey's team never argued this obvious racial profiling to the jury. As a result, the Zimmerman jurors who spoke to the press, just like the Dunn jurors, stated proudly that the case was not "about" race. One Zimmerman juror, known only as Maddy, said she noticed the racial profiling in Zimmerman's police calls but ignored it because she'd been told race was not part of the case."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bl ... cid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Have been there 3 times already. Great food, ambiance (think they were playing some Hotel Costes last time), and service. Deviled eggs, Mediterranean salad, beet salad, meatballs with polenta and the truffle toast were excellent. The mac-n-cheese wasn't thrilled about.

I heard Hard Grove and the adjacent florist were going to be a PNC Bank. Very bland uninspired if you ask me but I guess they can pay the rent.

JCMan you say Devilsadvocate using lynching was inflammatory but then you back pedal and equivocate and say "well I sort of get his point." The fact is Zimmerman is alive and well and most recently a cause celebre at a gun show in Orlando and selling his trifling art. Yes, there were angry people (not a large segment) upset spouting nonsense about his death but nothing has happened to him and people were rightfully angry -- there were no riots after the Martin trial as predicted or any melees after Renisha McBride, Jonathan Farrell or Jordan Davis. You like Devils are devoid of empathy and any understanding and it's quite pathetic and sad and a sad commentary on your humanity or lack thereof. Devils brought up Zimmerman being Hispanic (and threw in Affirmative Action for good measure as a dog whistle) ostensibly to switch from the traditional black/white paradigm and that as a Hispanic he would have shot a white person too. I said that other racial groups (Hispanics, Asians, etc) can emulate and absorb the inherent racist anti-black views in this country (sounds like his mother certainly did); and moreover, that George's brother (Robert) could conceivably identify as white/constructively white and not have any affinity with being a minority in this country or particularly empathizing with black people.

http://www.timwise.org/2012/03/trayvo ... -of-blackness-in-america/

How is constructively white (i.e. passing) offensive or remotely equivalent to saying Zimmerman is being lynched? You never heard of the term "passing" or saw actual lynching photos in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity)

Sounds like you both need better education on the history of this country. http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/i ... erty_law_center_says.html

Adhere to No 5. in the Rules (be polite, on topic and CONSTRUCTIVE with the content of your posts).

lynching them? and the troll award goes to you.

3-4 per hour. my bladder and liver couldn't handle it. Sounds like something from college days.

True but how much beer can the average person drink, 3 or 4tops? I've never been to the place in Hoboken

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you and me both. I don't see any progress.